Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
Some have translated these words, Turn thine eyes to me, and they say it means the call of Jesus to his church to be always looking to him. Isaiah 45:22. And, indeed, there is but too much reason for the perpetual call of Jesus to the church to this effect: but the more general opinion is that Christ expresseth himself as is here said, intimating that such is his love of his church, that when her faith is in lively actings, it compels him to comply with her request. Thus in the case of Lot: Haste thee; escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou become thither. Genesis 32:26; Genesis 32:26. And in the case of the woman of Canaan, Matthew 15:28.